Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

July 21, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Asaf Romirowsky

Biden blunders on refugees

President Joe Biden earned deserved modest praise for his visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia last week, restoring confidence in core Middle East alliances. But the president made at least one major misstep:...

July 30, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Asaf Romirowsky

Germany needs legislation to punish companies for pro-BDS activity

German regional governments and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration continue to ignore the federal parliament’s 2019 resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting...

May 6, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

50,000 scholar NGO slams ‘antisemitic’ BDS prof., supports German rep.

“For cosmetic and political reasons BDS groups try, albeit unsuccessfully, to draw a distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism to soft peddle their racist policies."

February 18, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin’s commissioner to fight antisemitism slams university for BDS event

“If anti-Israeli boycott and delegitimization campaigns are directly supported, the line regarding Israel-related antisemitism was crossed."

February 12, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German university hosts pro-BDS event with alleged antisemite

Humboldt University expelled Jewish students and academics in 1930's

February 9, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Jews urge Green Party MP to resign from ‘antisemitic’ BDS group

Last year, the Bild paper in Germany said Green Party member Claudia Roth made “antisemitism socially respectable” by enthusiastically meeting with the head of Iran’s quasi-Parliament Ali Larijani.

October 30, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US rebukes Germany for refusal to say Iran’s threat to destroy Israel is anti-Semitic

Threats by Iran to obliterate Israel have been played down by Germany, prompting the Trump administration’s highest-profile ambassador to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel government’s attitude...

March 14, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany slated to allow Palestinian terrorist to speak in Berlin

Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is prepared to allow convicted Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Rasmea Odeh to speak at an event in Berlin.

October 17, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German center for antisemitism research hires alleged ‘antisemite’

“You would imagine something like this would be done in Iran. Set up an institute to study antisemitism and invite antisemites to work there.”

October 1, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German state commissioner against antisemitism wants BDS account closed

“Because the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg rejected the BDS campaign, I would like to speak to the state's bank" he said

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Bank’s Anti-Semitism Leads United Israel Appeal to Shut Account

The German branch of the Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal – the prominent Israeli public fund-raising global organization to advance the security of the Jewish state – has closed it...

August 27, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Foreign Minister in Hot Water Over Effort to Bypass Iran Sanctions

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is under fire for seeking to circumvent powerful pending US financial sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, betraying his country’s pledge to combat...

August 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

When a Nazi comparison makes sense: The BDS movement against Israel

An excerpt from the op-ed follows: The proliferation of pro-BDS activities in Germany prompted Felix Klein, the German government commissi...

July 24, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Israel’s ambassador convinces Berlin’s Jewish museum to cancel BDS speaker

Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about a hardcore anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull...

May 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

German bank executives may be included on top 10 list of antisemitism cases

International human rights organization the Simon Wiesenthal Center is considering the inclusion of three senior executives of the German Bank for Social Economy (BFS) on its list of the top ten...

February 14, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Bank Enables Pro-BDS NGO that Supports IDF Deserters

A German bank has been catapulted into an anti-Israel scandal because it provides an account to an NGO that supports Israelis who desert from or refuse to serve in the IDF. The Jerusalem...

December 19, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

PFLP Celebrates Jubilee Year in Berlin

Supporters and a senior official of the internationally designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held a celebration in Berlin of 50 years since the grou...

August 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Follow the Money: The Israel-Boycott Movement and Its Accomplices

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky. U.S. banking giant Comerica’s closure of an account earlier this year held by an organization that wages legal and economic warfare against...

April 4, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany Rebukes Institute for Hosting Pro-Hezbollah Academic

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration reprimanded the Max Planck Institute for sponsoring an Islamic propaganda event featuring the pro-Hezbollah US academic Norman Finkelstein....

January 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Outrage over German Institute’s Hosting of Pro-Hamas, Hezbollah Speaker

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in the city of Halle sparked international criticism because the pro-Hezbollah and allegedly antisemitic activist Norman Finkelstein is slated to...